ADORABLE Sunny Pawar may have won the hearts of the world thanks to his performance in Lion – but to him there really is no place like home.

The eight-year-old has become an international star thanks to his starring role alongside Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman in the heartbreaking real-life tale of a child that gets lost thousands of miles away from home.

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He said: "It's been crazy. People have not stopped calling me since we arrived home. We've not stopped to rest for one minute.

Sunny was picked out of a selection of two thousand children who auditioned to play the role of Saroo Brierley - who gets separated from his older brother and ends up ten thousand miles away from his village and landing in Calcutta.

The star didn't know who any of his peers were at the Oscars last week

Not being able to remember the correct name for his village - and struggling with the language barrier between the two towns - Saroo eventually finds himself in an orphanage, where he is adopted by an Australian family.

Twenty years later, Saroo (who Dev Patel plays the older version of), suddenly finds himself remembering parts of his childhood, and starts a frantic search on Google Earth to try and track down where he came from.

Speaking about his appearance at the Oscars last week - which saw him recreate the Lion King moment with host Jimmy Kimmel, Sunny reveals he didn't understand what he was involved in - or who he was surrounded by.

He said: "I still don’t know who half of the people were! They were all lovely to me. And they made me feel like a superstar but I had not seen their films, I didn’t recognise many of them.

The little Lion then added: "Dev Patel is still the best star I have met. He’s my best friend now. He’s my super star."